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Design of Protection Dams Against Torrent Floods
- 1st Edition - December 31, 2029
- Authors: Jean-Marc Tacnet, Simon Carladous, Guillaume Piton
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 7 8 5 4 8 - 0 1 7 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 1 0 1 0 6 0 - 0
Design of Protection Works Against Torrent Floods explores the main features of the three leading types of protection works—torrent checkdams, sediment dams, and torrentia… Read more
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Request a sales quoteDesign of Protection Works Against Torrent Floods explores the main features of the three leading types of protection works—torrent checkdams, sediment dams, and torrential dykes—to help readers learn how to design them. It is dedicated to technicians, engineers, and risk managers who are in charge of structural design and/or management.
The book presents a technical and integrated overview of the design process, but also describes the different points that make these protection works so specific when compared with classical civil engineering works, such as buildings, bridges, and roads. In addition, this comprehensive resource emphasizes the main issues of structural and functional design, also offering the keys to dedicated and more specialized literature. Users will find a useful guide that provides a description of theoretical calculation methods that includes examples of observed failures.
- Features a comparison of the three main types of protection works, torrent checkdams, sediment dams, and torrential dykes
- Presents mathematical examples for practical guidance on a dedicated editor website
- Provides worked examples of observed protection works failures
Technicians, engineers and risk managers who are in charge of structural design or hazard management
1. Context of torrential risks
1.1. The physics of natural phenomena
1.2. From hazard assessment to risk management
1.3. Typology of protection works
2. Functional design
2.1. Torrent checkdams
2.2. Deposition dams
2.3. Torrential dykes
2.4. Synthesis: criteria of choice
3. Structural design
3.1. Backgrounds on structures calculation and geotechnics
3.2. Torrent checkdams
3.3. Deposition dams
3.4. Torrential dykes
4. Protection works management
4.1. Effectiveness assessment
4.2. Failure analysis and management
4.3. Integrated risk management
5. Conclusion
- No. of pages: 150
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: December 31, 2029
- Imprint: ISTE Press - Elsevier
- Hardback ISBN: 9781785480171
- eBook ISBN: 9780081010600
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Jean-Marc Tacnet
Jean-Marc Tacnet (Irstea-ETNA) is a senior researcher who received two Master Engineering Degrees (ENGEES, ENGREF), a M.Sc. degree in Applied Computer Science (Grenoble University) and a PhD thesis (ENSMSE) in Environmental Engineering Sciences. His activities focus on integrated risk management and expert assessment processes applied to natural phenomena in mountains. He is involved in applied research dealing with decision support systems for hazard, risk assessment but also risk reduction measures effectiveness analysis in a context of imperfect information and uncertainty. His disciplinary fields concern multi-criteria decision-making, information fusion, artificial intelligence (fuzzy sets, possibility, belief function theories), uncertainty analysis, and software engineerin. He manages a research team called DARE (Decision-Aid, Risk ans Expertise- ADRET in French).
Affiliations and expertise
Researcher, ETNA Research Unit, IRSTEA, Grenoble, FranceSC
Simon Carladous
Simon Carladous received his Master Engineering Degree from ENGEES, France (2005) and Master of Sciences in Natural Risks Management from Montpellier University, France (2013). He has 8 years experience in program and project management in different fields, namely drinking and wastewater management, natural hazards management in mountains (torrential floods, avalanches, rockfalls). He is currently undertaking his PhD thesis at Irstea in natural hazards management fields to develop decision-aid methods, taking into account information quality.
Affiliations and expertise
Agriculture and Environment Engineer (IAE) - PhD student at Irstea / AgroParisTech, Grenoble, FranceGP
Guillaume Piton
Guillaume Piton is currently undertaking his PhD in the area of torrential hydraulics at IRSTEA, Grenoble. From 2009 to 2013, he held the position of hydraulics engineer at ARTELIA ( ex - SOGREAH ), with a multidisciplinary study of hydraulic works including hydrology, hydraulic modeling, project design, site preparation, implementation monitoring and impact assessment. His research interests include torrential hydraulics, Sediment transport, Design works in rivers and physical modeling.
Affiliations and expertise
PhD student, IRSTEA, Grenoble, France